PCS compareCounty Cost Group 590 · O-1 · with dep. · $1,437/mo
County Cost Group 590$1,437/mo · $17,244/yr
CURRENT
Pick a station below to see what the move is worth a year, before tax.
Orders rarely arrive as one option — add several and rank them.
Comparison uses with-dependents rates. Differences are annual and untaxed.
Rate protection is not applied — a PCS resets you to the new location's current-year rate.
Verified official history. With-dependents rate shown; use the dependency switch above for its exact comparison.
COUNTY COST GROUP
This is not one installation. DTMO groups counties without a dedicated base into a "County Cost Group". The rate applies to any member whose duty location falls in one of the ZIP codes listed above.
O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Columbus AFB$1,476
County Cost Group 640$1,476
County Cost Group 630$1,470
Frankfort$1,464
County Cost Group 620$1,461
County Cost Group 610$1,455
Sparta$1,455
Charleston$1,452
Springfield$1,452
County Cost Group 600$1,446
County Cost Group 590$1,437
Paducah$1,434
County Cost Group 580$1,425
Wichita$1,422
Hattiesburg$1,419
Columbia$1,413
County Cost Group 570$1,413
County Cost Group 560$1,404
Albany$1,401
Cannon AFB$1,401
Lake Charles$1,398
Youngstown$1,218
County Cost Group 590 is #311 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month —
$47,448 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at County Cost Group 5900 – $2,295 / month
E-1$1,290
E-2$1,290
E-3$1,290
E-4$1,290
E-5$1,392
E-6$1,692
E-7$1,761
E-8$1,833
E-9$1,944
W-1$1,710
W-2$1,791
W-3$1,884
W-4$1,968
W-5$2,073
O-1E$1,770
O-2E$1,869
O-3E$1,983
O-1$1,437
O-2$1,689
O-3$1,881
O-4$2,103
O-5$2,268
O-6$2,283
O-7$2,295
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 590 to San Francisco at O-1
is worth $3,735 a month — about 15 promotions at this grade.
Where you are stationed outweighs rank, by a lot.
What the rate table does not tell you
01
“With dependents” is a dependency
status, not a marital status. A single member paying child support can be authorized
BAH-Diff; a married dual-military couple with no children is not automatically the
with-dependents rate for both. If your situation is unusual, your finance office decides —
not this table.
02
O-8, O-9 and O-10 draw the same BAH as
O-7. The table stops there for a reason, not because it is missing rows.
03
This is CONUS BAH only. Overseas is OHA,
which works differently — it reimburses actual rent up to a cap, with separate utility and
move-in allowances. Alaska and Hawaii are BAH; Germany, Japan and Korea are OHA.